Apple introduces iLife '08
By Donald Melanson 
posted August 7th 2007 12:38PM
posted August 7th 2007 12:38PM
As expected, Apple's given its iLife software suite a refresh in the form of iLife '08, which Jobs calls the "biggest jump since we introduced it." A bold claim to be sure, but you'll soon be able to judge for yourself, as the whole lot's available today for $79 (and, of course, bundled with all new Macs). Here's the breakdown app by app:
iPhoto: New to iPhoto this around is "Events," which promises to let you more easily organize your photo albums, and the .Mac Web Gallery, which'll let you publish and share your photos on the web, with other folks also able to contribute to it. What's more, you'll also be able to send photos to the gallery directly from your iPhone, and sync up your iPhone with photos already in the gallery.
iMovie: Described as a "whole new app," iMovie looks to have taken on some increasingly iPhoto-like characteristics, with it now now being touted as "one library for all your video." It'll let you work in resolutions "higher res than DVD" and, as with iPhoto, you'll be able to share those videos on your .Mac Web Gallery. It'll also encode and upload directly to YouTube and, of course, tailor videos for your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.
Click on through for details on the rest of the apps.
iPhoto: New to iPhoto this around is "Events," which promises to let you more easily organize your photo albums, and the .Mac Web Gallery, which'll let you publish and share your photos on the web, with other folks also able to contribute to it. What's more, you'll also be able to send photos to the gallery directly from your iPhone, and sync up your iPhone with photos already in the gallery.
iMovie: Described as a "whole new app," iMovie looks to have taken on some increasingly iPhoto-like characteristics, with it now now being touted as "one library for all your video." It'll let you work in resolutions "higher res than DVD" and, as with iPhoto, you'll be able to share those videos on your .Mac Web Gallery. It'll also encode and upload directly to YouTube and, of course, tailor videos for your iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.
Click on through for details on the rest of the apps.
iWeb: Getting a somewhat smaller upgrade is Apple's website builder, which now boasts including built-in support for GoogleMaps and Google's AdSense, along with something called "live web widgets," whichll let you copy any "web snippet" and paste it onto your site. You'll also get some new options for putting together photo pages, some new themes, and support for personal domains.
iDVD: Not a whole lot new here, it seems, but you will get "pro encoding" and some new themes, which promise "really high production values."
GarageBand: Among the updates to GarageBand this time 'round are multi-take recording, and what Apple's calling "Magic GarageBand," which will give you a fairly wide range of genres that "musicians and non-musicians alike" can play around with, including blues, rock, jazz, country, reggae, funk, latin, and others.
@ Chicksta- iWork was included in Mac OS 9.x, if not others.
Just talked to Apple, and Ilife 08 comes with Leopard in October, so why would you buy this now???
'Post a new photo simply by sending an email, or snap a picture on iPhone and select “Send to Web Gallery.”'
This would imply an iPhone update soon...since this feature currently doesn't exist on the iPhone as far as I can tell.
Fantastic!! I'm on the same boat mate! My daily personal/family digital needs are totally fulfilled by Apple's software and hardware. It's really amazing how integrated and "get it done" they are. Some friends keep teasing me on Picassa, Flickr and other softwares, but they actually get wowed when they actually see iLife running. On the other side, my daily job is done on Windows. When Intel's Macbook showed off and Parallels were introduced I came to it, just to check if I could get rid of Windows in the running course. Fact is, I keep 90% of my time on Windows, and very few time on Mac (speaking on daily job, of course).
Anyway, I loved new iLife software, loved the new iMac and the new keyboard. As someone else already said, it's just to be expected a brand new reshape of Apple's mice.
iPhoto now looks like a dumbed down copy of Adobe's Lightroom. Except you can't work in RAW format natively and lacks non-destructive photo manipulation.
iPhoto supports both Raw and Non-destructive editing. It has since at least the 06 version.
I've got hands on screen shots and commentary of iPhoto over here - http://blog.stewtopia.com/2007/08/07/iphoto-08-screenshots-and-commentary/
Enjoy.
Cheers,
Randy
iLife has some interesting little updates to it, but it has one MAJOR flaw in the video wing: old projects cannot be brought into iMovie 8. There's simply no way to do it unless your project has no transitions, no filters and no title effects. Then again, if your project has none of these things then what the hell are you using iMovie for in the first place? Making matters more boring, the new and "improved" iMovie doesn't offer much in the way of creative anything. The effects and transitions are built-in, non-expandable (no plug-ins allowed, I've heard) and don't require too many hands to count them all. If anything, iMovie is now "video editing for the rest of those who hadn't ever tried using iMovie in the first place." It's certainly not for the rest of us, as I read on another forum.
Sadly, the iLife app in most desperate need of a major upgrade--iWeb--didn't get much at all. I was sure Apple would add web-based blog editing for .Mac users.
It's not all bad though. Now I can put Google AdSense ads on my site to make money off all those freeloading friends and relatives coming to see the latest baby photos!
Actually it will talked to apple Ilife 08 comes with Leopard, and thanks for playing
Checked with apple Ilife 08 come with Leopard in October, sorry thanks for playing
Just called apple, they as usual are being nice and sending me a copy of the new iLife for my just arrived yesterday Macbook Pro. Don't complain if you haven't even given the company the benefit of the doubt.
I can dispute it all I want, 'cause it's wrong, and you're lying.
This is the first I've heard that iMovie '08 lacks audio track controls and the timeline view. If so, the software has been rendered nearly worthless. Final Cut Pro is a great product but, like Photoshop, requires a tremendous time commitment to master even mid-level editing functions. iMovie '07, while quirky, offered many (but hardly all) pro features in a logical, easy-to-use package. It's nice that the new version can manage videos and push them to an iPhone or YouTube, but that's trivial compared to offering control over the videos themselves. I'm hoping Engadget is wrong about some of this or I'll have to skip the entire upgrade. Frustrating.
I can't imagine any "musician" seriously using magic garage band. I mean, even for casual use it looks like a waste of time. If you're going to tinker around why not use ableton live or fruity loops, honestly?
Thankfully iMovie HD is automatically retained when upgrading to 08' :)
This is kind of amusing. The review section at the Apple Store gives it 3/5 stars based on 175 reviews... There is no way this is accurate. Even if they're taking the best 175 reviews out of the 200 posted, it would still end up under 2/5. Currently it sits at 1.13 stars by my calcs. Thanks Apple.
Bill Gates Owns a big chunk of Apple because of a copywrite infringement a while back they settled the suite with Gates buying into ALOT of stock.
The apple os is best on a PC intel chipset. mac g4 laptop vs macbook pro, macbook is 4-5 times faster than the previous g4.
BUT if you google "mac os on pc" you will note that Mac OS X on a Home built PC with intel chipset is 7-10 times faster than ANY OS RUNNING ON A MAC - ON ANY MAC!
I can see the two companies merging once Apple starts losing money and jobbs dies of cancer or somethin.
Oh yeah, you can build that Intel Based PC with Mac OS X for right around 700 Dollars... says alot to the people spending upwards around 2 grand for a macbook pro or any other mac around...
I have a macbook pro because I have to have it for school. It's easy to change things on it to make it unique - such as changing a picture to make the login screen background different than "Aqua Blue" which gets annoying lol
but i cant even get things like Yahoo Messenger to work on it. Open office.org 2.2 will not run on it so i can't even view pdf's unless im in Parallels Desctop under the Windows XP Pro partition. lol parallels even runs choppy - prolly on purpose.
alot of bugs and alot of hoo haaas - my home pc is still faster than my new macbook pro - mac sells because people think its "sexy" or what not - i dont trust anything about it accept for one thing.
That is the disk utilities "Erase Disk" to Securely erase data writing 0's and 1's over all your deleted data up to 37 times (though it taks around 10 hours to do) it is the military standard for erasing goverment computer files. or you have the choice to run it 7 times in a row or just zero it out with one pass.
other than that - mac has crappy software out unless you buy it from Apple itself - and they charge an arm and a leg for any software and for ANY hardware - wireless mouse = 80$ ... accessories are pricey.
that is what i think about the two - and ilife and iwork 08 suck, i liked 07 better where you can actually see everything - 08 freezes up unless you have the Dashboard turned off.
ya thats what i think